Charity ride out.

I am told that there is a charity rideout every year from London to
Southend. I have never heard of it but I assume it is either the Hardly
or the Goldwing crowd

Does anybody know who organises it and how I can get in touch?

 

Are you thinking of the Ace Cafe one, happened a month or so back?

D

 

We did the Southend Shakedown run on Easter Monday which was from the
Ace Cafe to Southend. They said it was in aid of charity but they didn't
really push the collection at all - in fact I asked a marshall about who
to see to offer dosh and he had no idea.

The Ace cafe website doesn't show who benefits either
http://www.ace-cafe-london.com/

The run in August to Harwich I understand is in aid of the Essex Air
Ambulance

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David Thomas wrote

I dunno.

I was filming at a horsey rescue charity place[1] today and one of the
trustees, an extremely attractive single 40 something WPC, asked me if I
happened to know who organised it. I said I would ask the font of all
knowledge. What else could I do?

The EHPPS is by any standards a large undertaking and costs an absolute
fortune to run and they have discovered that getting more public down
there and involved pays dividends in terms of their overall income.


The logic behind her thinking with the bikers is; as part of their open
to the public fund raising bit they need to get specifically the kids,
not necessarily horsey types, interested in visiting on a sunny Sunday
afternoon. To this end they are willing to provide tea and biccies for
somebody like a bunch of charity riders in order to attract the younger
bodies and their chequebook bearing parents through the gate.



[1] The Essex Horse and Pony Protection Society

 

Fotoman wrote

That could be the very badger.

Do you know who actually runs it? The web site has been no real help I
am afraid to say.

 

Think Ford's of Dunton organise it, that's Ford as in Ford Motor Company
(Dunton Research)

HTH, David

 

David Thomas wrote

You sure? I mean, you may be thinking of Ford's computer centre in
Eagle Way Brentwood. That is not very far from Dunton.

 

I rememeber seeing a poster at the training school I was with saying:
"Fords of Dunton"
"Essex Air Ambulance"
"Charity" &
"August 2003"

Dind't take anymore notice of it because it was about a month before I
passed my DAS, so was something I could attend.

David

 

David Thomas wrote

That'll be Ford's at Dunton then.

??

 

Talk to Arthur at Swifts. He does that every year.

 

Ben Blaney wrote

I'll check it out. Ta.